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Win the touchball tournament

Task types:

Solo

Live

Mental

Physical

Social

Objective

Single brief

Original

Locations:

Docklands Studios Melbourne

Task brief

The brief for the task is as follows:

Play in the first annual touchball tournament.

Each contestant will get to play both as ball-toucher and as ball-wanter.

As per international touchball rules, on Tom’s first whistle, the ball-toucher will have 15 seconds to place the ball within the touchball arena.

On Tom’s second whistle, the ball-wanter must try to touch the ball with their fake leg as fast as possible.

The ball-toucher may not touch the ball or the ball-wanter after placing the ball.

The ball-wanter will be blindfolded throughout.

Best touchball player wins.

Tom will now announce the first randomly selected touchball pairing.

Task notes

This entire task is based on Rhys Nicholson’s attempt at the ‘Create an original two-player sport’ task, earlier in the episode, but the rules have been adapted to allow it to be played by everyone on the stage.
As the task brief is read out, Tom Cashman reveals an exercise ball and a mannequin leg as the equipment to be used during the game, and places them on a table at the left-hand side of the stage.
A sort of square boxing ring has been set up on the stage, using stanchions and rope.
The contestants are all wearing coloured sun visors and, when they are playing the role of the ball-wanter, have to wear a blindfold.
Those contestants who are not playing at any time leave the ring and sit on one of the three stools provided at the right-hand side of the stage.
The scoring of the task is based on the ratio between each contestant’s ball-toucher and ball-wanter times during the tournament.
With its use of blindfolded seeking within a roped-off ring, this task is somewhat reminiscent of the ‘Service bell helmet tag’ task.